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Originally posted by Shadowfoot
What do you in all of your self absorbed brilliance know of anyone's background? Perhaps I did not fully espouse my meaning in the best possible light...my supposition was that one should not jump to conclusions in these things including our systems of dating and our immediate acceptance of the established timeline.
modern academia is always hesitant if not downright opposed to propose anything being older then our current historical model.
Originally posted by Byrd
No, the similarities aren't that great. The Sumerians were off the world scene by then (replaced by the Assyrians, who weren't much admired) and the Hebrews had not yet put the Torah together into the "old Testament" at the time of Socrates. Socrates' tale is very explicit about dimensions and structure. Folks often try to explain changes to an area to justify it being Atlantis (and conveniently ignoring Socrates' statement that it is still a vast swampy mudflat somewhere in the ocean.)
You can tell when myths are derived from another one because of some strong points of similarity (in this case, warning from heaven, a religiously-relevant number of days involved, survival of the only good family (everyone else is horrible and wicked), bringing pairs of animals aboard a large boat, earth submerged for a religiously significant timeframe).
Originally posted by Versa
The reason I suggested this was because the stories of Genesis and Atlantis both came from Egypt,
Originally posted by Essan
A shame an interesting archaeological discovery has to be overshadowed by the 1534th identical thread about Atlantis and archaeological cover-ups.
Isn't anyone else interested that we have evidence that the Romans, or their contemporaries, colonised the Azores, way out in the Atlantic, long before it was thought anyone reached the islands?
Of course, if this is evidence of Atlantis then it means Plato was predicting future events
Originally posted by DemonSpeedN
reply to post by Schmidt1989
Yes the 9-10k years ago is the most commonly agreed time when Atlantis existed but what most people don't know or wont believe (or recognize) is that Plato or whoever translated from ancient Egyptian in to Greek got the numbers wrong or misinterpreted some numbers by one decimal point in ancient Egyptian. Now if you account for the new time line its 900 hundred to 1000 years ago instead of 9000-10000 years ago which makes more sense if you really think about it.
Atlantis was and is a real place, it was destroyed a couple thousand years ago and my proof is this book called "The Destruction of Atlantis" by Frank Joseph check it out and see for yourself.
Originally posted by DemonSpeedN
I'm sorry I was mistaken, according to Solon Atlantis was supposedly destroyed 9-10k years before his time but if we use the new calculations of the time line by moving one decimal point. It would be 900 to 1000 after Solon's time and that is the correct date for the destruction of Atlantis and it was said, I don't have scientific proof, the Atlantean Empire ruled anywhere between 50 to 250 thousand years before that, pretty much since humans have been on this planet, maybe longer.
Originally posted by Versa
The reason I suggested this was because the stories of Genesis and Atlantis both came from Egypt...
Originally posted by Harte
Originally posted by Versa
The reason I suggested this was because the stories of Genesis and Atlantis both came from Egypt,
How did either story come from Egypt?
Harte
Originally posted by Lynda101
reply to post by Schmidt1989
I'd pay good money to see you sprint along a quarter of a mile carrying a 1,000 ton slab measuring 21.5m x 4.8m x 4.2m. By the way its not on the level its uphill.
Originally posted by Lynda101
Really, would mention that the measurements used to construct the pyramids were not known to us until the Middle Ages andregarding the temple at Balbek, if you wish to move slabs of the size not only moved by the ancients there from their quarries, then go on to lift them up in the air in order to place at the level you wish, not forgetting their weight of from 80+ tonnage, try getting a crane to day to do it with. I forgot to mention the length of some of these slabs but won't worry you with that.
Originally posted by Versa
Originally posted by Harte
Originally posted by Versa
The reason I suggested this was because the stories of Genesis and Atlantis both came from Egypt,
How did either story come from Egypt?
Harte
I might be completely wrong but didn't the story of Atlantis come from Egypt via Solon and Moses was supposedly brought up in Egypt so its not a big step to assume that he learnt all his stories from there too?
Originally posted by DemonSpeedN
reply to post by Schmidt1989
I said that because 1 I read it in a book and I cant remember which one, and 2 I don't have the proof because I wasn't the one that originally came up with the idea or theory.
And another thing just because you don't have scientific proof doesn't mean it doesn't exist. There are things in this existence you cant explain scientifically, and there are things you cant explain spiritually. People that think if you don't have scientific proof to say what is real and whats not are just deluding themselves.